let them come home

Isaac Moore, 27: the protector of the team. He’s been tasked with keeping them all safe, but he tasks himself with so much more. He’s been trained to fight the crime syndicates since he was a teen. He’s brave, protective, and would do anything for the team’s youngest member, Sam.

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Sam Vasterling, 19: the youngest and newest member of the team. They are Isaac’s little sibling in every way but blood. They’re sweet, devoted, and loved. They didn’t want this life, but that choice was taken away when they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Now they’re part of the ragtag team, learning how to survive.

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Gavin Stormbeck, 24: the son of the Stormbeck crime syndicate. He grew up learning to hurt people at the command of his parents, and has never known any life but the world he was born into. When he meets Isaac, he realizes there is something outside his own blood-soaked world, and would do anything to find out more.

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Vera Novak, 36: a fighter in every way, and Isaac’s best friend. She became a cop to fight the syndicates, and learned the cruelty of the syndicates better than most. She fights by Isaac’s side to keep the team safe. She’s fiercely loyal to her family and would do anything to protect them... including hiding her dark past. 

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Gray Uriah, 52: Gray is the heart and leader of the team. Empathetic, caring, and sensitive, they see the places their team needs support the most. They are always ready and willing to put someone else first. They are the only one that still remembers how the world was before the syndicates, and they’ve spent their whole life trying to fix things one way or another. 

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Finn Dunham, 27: they have the unfortunate gift of having training as a combat medic. It’s unfortunate, they say, because that guarantees they’ll always be farthest from danger, waiting to patch up the team whenever they get hurt. They want nothing more but to be in the thick of the action.

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Ellis Price, 34: Finn’s partner. They have no family left but the team. When Ellis’s family was gunned down by the Stormbecks, they vowed to do whatever they had to in order to bring the syndicates to justice. They hide their pain under a mask of sarcasm and snark but will fight you if you threaten their team. 

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Tori Nasser, 33: Tori was involved in the resistance movements with Gray years ago. Now she runs a safehouse, helping out victims of the syndicates and trying to keep innocent people safe. She enjoys her quiet life under the radar. When she answers Gray’s call and lets the team into her protection, she has no idea what they bring to her doorstep… good, and bad.

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Joseph Stormbeck, 51 (at the time of Honor Bound): Fourteen years before the start of Honor Bound, Vera was assigned to infiltrate Joseph’s syndicate. As the head of his family, he didn’t take kindly to the police snooping around his business. Rather than kill Vera outright, he decided to capture her and torment her for months. Suave, patient, and wildly sadistic, he became the subject of her nightmares when she’s asleep, and awake.

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Ryan Pearson, 24 (at the time of the Vera series): Fourteen years before the start of Honor Bound, Ryan joined Joseph’s syndicate for safety, purpose, and most importantly, a job. When he was assigned night shift guard duty for Vera, he figured it was going to be an easy paycheck, babysitting an easy captive. He had no way of knowing the consequences of that assignment.

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Colleen Stormbeck, 49 (at the time of Honor Bound 2): Colleen lives as one of the top syndicate members, in control of one of the biggest regions in the shattered country. She loves her husband and her son more than anything else in the world. When her husband is taken from her and her son nearly dies (again) at Vera’s hand, she decides to exercise her power as a Stormbeck to set the world right again: by hunting down and destroying Isaac and his team. She would do anything to maintain her family’s status and power, and there’s no one she wouldn’t cut down who got in her way.

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Edrissa Clarke, 18: Edrissa has lived for the past 2 years as a syndicate plaything. Only her own spirit and the hope of seeing her brother again kept her alive. When the team rescues her during her own sale to another syndicate, she has no choice but to stay with the team for her safety, and theirs. She has no idea what she’s found in the family when they take her in.

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Daniel Schiester, 42 (at the time of Honor Bound 2): he is the mysterious mayor of Crayton, the town that holds the line for the north. He has a grudge against the syndicates and takes particular interest in Gavin. He oversees the protection and safety of the refugees that come into his care both to make up for his dark past, and to carry out his own version of justice in the present.

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Zachariah Medina, 18 (at the time of Honor Bound 3): Zachariah grew up in Fort Meyers, and he learned young that it was either work for the syndicates, or starve. When he gets a job at the Stormbeck household as a security guard, it is a relief. That relief is quickly replaced with horror as he realizes the implications of having to protect the Stormbecks - and who he’s forced to hurt in the process.

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Cast faceclaims/fancasts here, here, here

Honor Bound playlist here

Isaac moodboard, Finn/Ellis moodboard, Vera moodboard, Gavin moodboard,  Isaac/Gavin moodboard,  Isaac/Gavin in captivity moodboard

Art from others:

Moodboards:

Moodboards by @orchidscript: Sam/Isaac/Gavin and Tori/Vera

Moodboards by @newbornwhumperfly: Gavin Stormbeck Uriah, Isaac and Sam, Gavin/Isaac book 3 & 4, Gavin/Isaac book 5 & 6, Tori/Vera, Gray Uriah, Daniel Schiester, Vera

Moodboards by @newandfiguringitout: Gavin and Isaac captivity, Isaac, Sam, Gavin, Ellis, Vera, Isaac and Sam, Isaac/Gavin

Art:

Commissions by @albino-whumpee: Isaac/Gavin, Isaac and Sam, HMS ToriVera, Isaac/Gavin book 6

Commissions by @boxboysandotherwhump​​: Isaac/Gavin book 6, Gavin’s nightmare, Isaac, Gavin, and Sam book 6

Commission by @erissa002​: Vera

Commission by @luckydanart​: Sam in book 3, Isaac/Gavin in book 4

Gavin Uriah then/now by @who-needs-a-life-anyways​

Nata the cat (?) and Zelda the dog (!), Gavin takes the trash out, the team meets Tom Bombadil by @burtlederp​

The end of the Stormbecks by @mostlyjustwhump​

The family by @my-whumpy-little-heart

Isaac/Gavin by @luckydanart​

Music and more:

Gavin Stormbeck Uriah playlist, Isaac Moore playlist by @newbornwhumperfly​

The Honor Bound Season 1 Episode 1 TV pilot of my dreams by @butwhatifyouwrite

I do love that Gavin would have had a chance to be a kid with Gray, and would have grown up knowing he was safe and loved. He would have had that chance to be a hero for Sam because he would have grown up seeing people being heroic for a good cause for almost his entire life. And he would have had Gray reinforcing this feeling that he is worthy and good for his entire life. He would have learned so much from everyone around him and discovered who he was so much sooner.

The thing about this AU is... his relationship with Isaac would have been so much more fucked up though. Gavin would still have that sadistic streak, and Isaac would still have that throbbing ache under his skin telling him that he is unworthy unless he's sacrificing for his loved ones. And once Isaac found out Gavin was good with a knife... ohhhh boy

I picture Isaac going to Gavin's tent late at night, eyes downcast, cheeks flushed with the shame of asking. Gavin finally pulls the question out of him:

"Will you... will you h-hurt me, Gavin?"

At first Gavin refuses; he left that behind in his childhood. Or, at least, he wants to believe that. But he still has dreams of people bleeding under his knife. He's looked at Isaac and wondered how Isaac would look under his knife.

So he lays Isaac out, binds his wrists behind him with a handkerchief. He leans Isaac back against his chest and gently tugs his shirt up to reveal his trembling stomach. And, gently, he begins to cut. Isaac groans under the knife, trembling, hands twisting behind him. He presses his forehead against Gavin's neck as Gavin carves his way up Isaac's chest.

"More?" he asks.

Isaac nods, sweat darkening his hair.